famines

A severe famine hits the Deccan region in India from 1630–1632.

A great drought and subsequent famine strikes Southern India from 1876–1878.

A severe drought hits the region of the Sahel and West African Sudan, causing widespread famines.

A series of drought hits the Sahel from 1968 to the early 1980s, leading to one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the twentieth century.

A severe famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea affects eight million people.

The introduction of the rinderpest virus into Africa by Europeans decimates cattle and wildlife populations, leading to severe famines.

The eruption kills nearly the entire population of the island of Sumbawa and destroys the coasts of two further Indonesian islands. The spread of ash clouds leads to “the year without summer.”